A crowd of wealthy investors, transportation experts, media, and even North Las Vegas Mayor John Jay Lee, watched as a roughly 10-foot long sled shot down a short train track and then crashed into a pile of sand. It was an inauspicious way to kick off what’s supposed to be a global revolution in transportation.

There has been much scepticism around the idea of the Hyperloop, and at the launch the company’s top executives made “bold proclamations about the future of their industry.”

The test didn’t look like that much of a feat, but the company’s co-founder, Shervin Pishevar, had this to say:

I think you have to understand that is a completely new propulsion system. We’ll get 350 miles per hour as soon as we complete that [track]. This was to show everyone we’re actually building this. This is real.

Man, I wanna see the real test. Also, wouldn’t it be cool if they could develop something that uses the railways systems we already have in place around the world?